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(provider: TCP Provider, error: 0 - The remote computer refused the network connection.) Server Error in '/' Application.Ī network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. Verify that the instance name is correct and that SQL Server is configured to allow remote connections. Perhaps I should put it up on CraigsList.A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. I still have the rolling chassis as 2 recyclers have flaked out on picking it up. But around that time auto manufacturers were also starting to talk seriously about creating battery electrics again. The underlying theme for this project was to learn the skills I would need in order to build my own EV car, which is much more expensive than an EV motorcycle. Around the same time manufacturers were starting to demo their own EV motorcycle builds and they sure looked nicer than the 20 year old heap in my garage. This negated the justification for spending another $4,000 or more on a single passenger project. Just 3 days before I was going to order in all the EV parts something happened that I'd been trying for for more than 1.5 years: I got a carpooler. All in all I made back about $400 of the original $700 investment.
I also managed to sell the cooling system, and then dumped the rest of the loose stuff with a recycler for a few dollars. But i was able to sell it for $250 to a young man that needed some parts from it. I stripped it all down and like Ben mentioned getting the engine out requires patience, tactics, floor jacks, cribbage, cargo straps, lubrication (for you), etc. It's been back to 100% for a few months now. I was on crutches for nearly 3 weeks, was biking by mid April, mountain biking by early May, and after about a year and some massage therapy it finally quit "loading and popping" every time I raised my leg (which was quite an event while snowboarding). My knee healed but it was a long process. I had totally forgotten about this thread. When I was finished at the data center I drove back to Reno over I-80 (Donner Pass). There was some work to be done that took about an hour, and the best part is that because of this I will get reimbursed for most of the day's mileage by my company at $0.505/mile.
I expect to make back a good chunk of the purchase price by parting out the engine/transmission and the exhaust system.Īfter I finished my business there I had to head to my company's data center colocation in Natomas, another annex on the North side of Sacramento. It's nothing less than ironic that it's the only chassis in the yard with a working engine, and I'm one of the few customers they'll ever meet that simply doesn't need one. The odd thing is that the engine actually runs. I spent another $100 on some broken lights/missing parts and they threw in the seats and a fuel tank shell for free. I was there to look at 4 chassis but only the first one fit my needs. I went over Spooner Summit, through South Lake Tahoe, over Echo Summit (which isn't as steep, high or twisty as Mount Rose but is even narrower and had 1-foot higher snow walls) and then dropped out of the Sierras and into Rancho Cordova. On the way there I took SH 395 South through Carson City to SH 50 West. I had to go to Sacramento for this as there is absolutely no motorcycle salvage market in Reno. I took my wife's 1996 V6 4x4 Tacoma to Rancho Cordova (an annex of Sacramento) to look at rolling chassis at a salvage yard. I took the first step towards an EV motorcycle conversion today.